Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested that parents should have the power to sue school districts over the harm caused to their children by mask mandates.
“Rather than take money that may penalize a teacher or student because of the actions of some union-controlled school board members, my view would be — let’s not do that,” DeSantis said in a Friday news conference. “But what you could do is say, any parent whose kid was illegally forced masked this year in Florida, in any of those districts, they should have the right to sue if their kids have any negative effects of it.”
DeSantis was referring to a bill that would yank $200 million in funding from school districts that imposed mask mandates on their students despite DeSantis’ order not to.
DeSantis specifically noted that students who now suffer from speech, emotional, or physical problems because of the mask mandates should be able to sue.
“If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial,” DeSantis said. “It would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program.”
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DeSantis should know than in America anyone can sue over anything. Whether they will prevail is the question.
And likewise, parents should be able to sue the governor and local school board members if their kids contract Covid at school.
How do people know if they have negative side effects
“How do people know if they have negative side effects? ”
If they wake up August 24th and realize they voted for DeSantis in the Republican primary the prior day
@Gadolhadorah Impossible to prove that they contracted it because someone wasn’t wearing a mask. They were wearing a mask “except for 2 minutes” and that’s enough, isn’t it? Assuming masks work in the first place.
No healthy kid died of Omicron. And anyone who had omicron- kid or adult, now has natural immunity and will emerge much better protected than w the so called vaccine.
Kids are too young to vote and our politicians are bent on running after a nonexistent threat and nonexistent solution and deprive kids of their basic human rights and physical and emotional developments.
Just to prove they have the power and $$$$.
Anyone guilty of masking kids should know their day will come…